Hey everyone! I hope youre having a great holiday and winter break. If youre not on winter break, well that sucks. lol
just kidding. I hope youre having a great week anyways.

Sooo the results youve all been waiting for are finally finished! Im sorry it took us so long to get these scores out to
you, but at least you got a nice break ^-^ hehe. the scoring for the next round should be MUCH faster because the number
or walls to score is cut in half. Ahhh....yes...if you dont remember, 2 groups have been eliminated. T-T But everyone
did such a great job! I know isolation is a pretty hard theme to wall. You can all go hit bj0rn now. (LOL just kidding,
and for your info, you might not want to hit him because hes going to be judging the walls in the next round as
well!)

So, lets be positive here, and instead of announcing the two teams got eliminated first, Im going to tell you which ones
made it through alive!

Divine Radiance

&

Forsaken
!

Again, all teams did great, but those 2 were the ones with the highest scores.
Bj0rn has decided to a little wildcard with the two eliminated teams, and he has decided to allow these people to join
one of the two persevering teams ::

Naomi-chan2612
ChopperDave
Alterlier
HeartfulSkies

If they decide to join the next round, Naomi-chan2612 and Heartfulskies will be on Team Forsaken, and ChopperDave and
Alterlier will be on Team Divine Radiance.

If you have any questions about that, please PM me. (Also, I need the wildcard members listed above to reply in the
thread whether or not they are interested in joining the next round)

Individual scores and critiques are available upon request. However, although I cannot give each individual judge's
score to you, I can give you your average score in each
category.

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Okay, so lets get onto the next round! I know many of you celebrate holidays during this season, like Hannukah,
Christmas, New Years, or Kwanzaa (and many more ^-^). I believe the deadline will be long enough though, for you to
finish your wallpaper. THE DEADLINE FOR THE
NEXT ROUND IS JANUARY 31. That gives you almost a month to finish your wallpaper.

REMEMBER: THIS WALLING ROUND IS ONLY FOR THE TWO TEAMS THAT WERE NOT ELIMINATED -- DIVINE RADIANCE AND FORSAKEN.

The next walling theme is called Euphoria. I wanted something happy this time, so here is an explanation of it -
euphoria can be associated with joy, and a feeling of bliss/happiness. Since this is a season of happiness and sharing,
you will wall something that inspires you and makes you happy. You are making a wallpaper to share your inspirations to
the MT community. My only request is that you make your wallpaper original and unique, and make it meaningful. I will
disqualify any wallpapers that are totally made up of sparkles because you love sparkles, or ones that are just heavenly
with no meaning in them because you like celestial beings. Its about your emotions, people, so put some thought into it.
I know the theme of this round is euphoria, but that does not mean your wallpaper has to be happy. If bloody people in
your wall makes you happy and inspires you to make a great piece of artwork, then so be it. Id rather see a great and
unique wall of a dead person rather than a sparkle, cloud filled angel wall that has nothing to represent.
Again, heres a poem. Might help inspire you ^-^ Sorry, its quite long.

"I abhor lack of inspiration
I loathe a lack of mystery and elation
I hate boredom and restriction
I detest the cold emptiness of motivation

Inspiration is a magnificent thing
I search everywhere for a spark
to set fire to the imagination

And I must cry myself to sleep
because of the shows I keep
watching mindlessly
with such heartless humour

When unconditional love
is the inspiration I seek
What will inspire unconditional love in me?

Allowing all to live and breathe and be
and most of all
allowing myself to be free?"
-Margaret Alice Koch

So what inspires unconditional love in you? For me, it would be nature. Nature can be gravely dangerous but
breath-taking beautiful at the same time. It can destroy man yet inspire man. Hopefully you can all find your own
inspiration in this round ^-^

Oh, we didn't make it :(
But! thanks for saving me :)
I'll be happy to keep on with this contest, my new team is Forsaken! So i'll do my best
Thanks again for considering me, i'm glad
Need to start walling!

Oh, yes, I'd like to know about the individual scores and the critiques, so starr, I would love if you could PM me
later
Merry Christmas and Congratulations everyone!

Wow, we are not in the contest anymore but congrats to the winners..and I also think if I were in the two teams that won
I would have my difficulties for the new theme because I suck in making happy-wallies XD.

Oh wow. our team made it! yay. I am so happy! :D but now I have to worry about another wall. lol.But the new theme
sounds very cool and interesting. I hope I can come up with something soon. XD Well Congrats to everyone! :D

congratulations to the people who passed.. whoever they were lolz. great job. i wished i could see your
walls...

ooo mee.. if I AM in Divine Radiance... gwah.. it's another wallie before the 20th. can we extend? to the end of January
instead? I'm kinda having difficulty now walling because of work. ^_^' thank you!

and uh, euphoria somehow sounds like happiness due to the effect of drugs.. lolz.. is euphoria "good"
happiness or "bad" happiness?

and another request - can i see the list of those who passed and their entries? i haven't been browsing so i wasn't able
to see the submission of the others. thanks!

*nervous*
Yay! We got through! XD
Im so glad *sobs*
Its kinda touching to see every post here... ^_^'
I know its corny... maybe its just coz Im listening to dis awefully sad song right now... T_T
COngrats everybody! XD

I agree with blueangel... >_<
can we postponed the deadline to the end of January? >_<
And... I also kinda want to see the walls from the other team... >_<
ehehe... >_< Sorry for the troubles! T_T

I didn't understand exactly how the judgement thing was done, but anyway, congrats for those who stayed.
And good luck next phase. :D
(I'm kind of glad my team was cuted off, because I have no idea how to wall euphoria... XD )

We made it! YAY! I'm so happy! I'm also kinda sad for the teams that didn't make it, but it's true, now we have to deal
with the pressure again! Oh, my God! i'm kinda euphoric now, and still have no idea of how to wall that! I guess I'm
gonna have to squeeze my brains really hard this time. Anyways, congrats to all the winner, especially my teamates! Go,
Forsaken! XD